Building Analytical Capacity for Rapid Financial Response to Floods
- Lead PI: Dr. Upmanu Lall
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Unit Affiliation: Columbia Water Center (CWC)
- August 2016 - April 2017
- Inactive
- Asia ; Southeast Asia
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: The limited ability of a government to rapidly allocate funds for effective response immediately after disasters is a potentially dangerous bottleneck. Can satellite remote-sensing data, ground-based information, hydrometeorological data, and financial instruments be tied together in an effective way to allow for efficient and comprehensive disaster response? Columbia Water Center is investigating this question in a pilot program beginning in Southeast Asia, sponsored by the World Bank.